compact

noun

1. An agreement or contract.

   “President Biden laid out an ambitious agenda on Wednesday night to rewrite the American social compact by vastly expanding family leave, child care, health care, preschool and college education for millions of people to be financed with increased taxes on the wealthiest earners.”

   “After taking over this month as president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, a nonpartisan coalition of city mayors, he urged members to sign a “crypto compact” calling on the federal government to eschew overly aggressive regulation of the industry.”

   “Countering this in international media by offering more balanced views for a global audience is near impossible as censorship is rife. There almost seems to be a global compact to control the narrative, a propaganda war powered by today’s digital technology.”

2. A slim folding case, often featuring a mirror, powder and a powder puff, small enough to fit in a woman's purse, handbag, or pocket.
3. An automobile that is larger than a subcompact but smaller than an intermediate.
4. A broadsheet newspaper published in the size of a tabloid but keeping its non-sensational style.

   “The Dundee Courier has announced the newspaper will be relaunching as a compact later this week. Editor Richard Neville said a "brighter, bolder" paper would appear from Saturday, shrunk from broadsheet to tabloid size.”

verb

1. (intransitive)To form an agreement or contract.

   “In return for the sovereign's protection, they compacted to police the content of public literature.”

2. (transitive)To make more dense; to compress.

   “You need to excavate and remove the topsoil, line the subsoil with a geotextile, then lay and compact hardcore.”

3. To unite or connect firmly, as in a system.

   “The whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth.”

adj

1. (archaic, not-comparable)Agreed, contracted.

   “O Gorice XI., most glorious King of Witchland, and O Lord Goldry Bluszco, captain of the hosts of Demonland, it is compact betwixt you, and made fast by mighty oaths whereof I, the Red Foliot, am keeper, that ye shall wrastle three falls together on these conditions, […]”

2. Closely packed or densely constituted; having much material in a small volume.

   “glass, crystal, gems, and other compact bodies”

3. Having all necessary features fitting neatly into a small space.

   “a compact laptop computer”

4. Brief and pithy; not verbose.

   “a compact discourse”

5. (not-comparable)Of a topological space:
6. (not-comparable)Of a topological space:
7. (obsolete)Joined or held together; leagued; confederated.

   “Thou fooliſh Frier, and thou pernicious woman / Compact with her that's gone:”

   “a pipe of seven reeds, compact with wax together”

8. (obsolete)Composed or made; with of.

   “A wandering fire, / Compact of unctuous vapor.”